Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He drove the murder route. Mike Elam scanned the bushes along the sides of the road where killers could have laid in wait.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buford Pusser should have been on top of the world. By Aug. 20, 1974, he was the most famous sheriff in America, all because of ...

Pauline Pusser was the wife of a sheriff, so her chores were a bit unusual. She cooked meals for prisoners and cleaned the jailhouse between raising her children and sending Christmas cards. But on ...

Buford Pusser was a long-time sheriff in McNairy County whose life was the subject of two major motion pictures. On Aug. 29, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that they would have ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Pauline Pusser was the wife of a sheriff, so her chores were a bit unusual. She cooked meals for ...

A press conference on Friday may have forever shattered the image of a lawman thought incorruptible, whose ruthless war on violent Tennessee moonshiners was believed to have cost him his wife, and ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has concluded that former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser likely killed his wife, Pauline, in 1967. New evidence contradicts Pusser's account of the ...

A sheriff whose crusade against corruption inspired a string of Hollywood films is now suspected by Tennessee authorities of killing his wife before 1973’s “Walking Tall” was released, in a dramatic ...

He drove the murder route. Mike Elam scanned the bushes along the sides of the road where killers could have laid in wait. Something didn't seem right to him. It's about 20 miles from former McNairy ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct information about the death of Dennis Hathcock's aunt. He drove the murder route. Mike Elam scanned the bushes along the sides of the road where ...